Edward Scissorhands Film Analysis

Charlie in the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, Edward Scissorhands. All famous movies directed by Tim Burton, a dark and mysterious director. Burton has an odd sense of style, which is used to captivate characters emotions and sense suspicions. Burton is a talented director and takes many things into consideration before directing a film. In many films directed by Burton, he uses shots and framing, non-diegetic sound, and camera angles to create mood.
To begin, Burton chooses shots and framing to help create the sense of bright but unusual feeling. Burton does this by using a close-up of the golden ticket in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. When Charlie finally finds the golden ticket he has been looking for, the close-up on the ticket gives
When Edward is coming home and sees the van driving crazy, he thinks of Kevin, who is walking home from a friends’ house. Walking home seems trustworthy enough. The menacing, non-diegetic music in the back foreshadows the abnormal events that are about to happen. When the audience sees the van speeding up and heading towards Kevin, they realize he is in danger, which is foreshadowed by the ominous music. Burton paints suspense in his films and keeps the audience of the edge of their seats, wondering what will happen, and keeping the dramatic events going by using sound and
In the movie, Big Fish, Burton uses a mixture of high and low angles when Karl the giant is talking to Edward Bloom, the main character. The high angle gives the audience a chance to see how little everyone looks from the giant’s point of view, while the low angle provides a chance for everyone to figure out how tall Karl actually is and how he intimidates everyone else. The low angle shows how other characters feel about Karl. Sometimes he is petrifying and other times he is tasteful. The high angle shows that Karl is just as frightened as the other characters are. The audience can now see the world through both